tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post7878949494564492272..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: This is my breadZenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-32360689428825779852008-07-24T19:42:00.000-07:002008-07-24T19:42:00.000-07:00ps - in church camp we used to sing a song contain...ps - in church camp we used to sing a song containing these deathless lines: Not a Presby, nor a Luth'ran, nor a Baptist white with foam: I am an Anglican, just one step from Rome... <BR/><BR/>Still, it's an all-important step.The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-61560761934528958232008-07-24T19:40:00.000-07:002008-07-24T19:40:00.000-07:00ex-Episcopalian here... Any baptized person can ta...ex-Episcopalian here... Any baptized person can take Anglican communion, no big deal. It's the RCs who have all the turf issues. And the Anglicans are not that close to rejoining Rome - since the only way to merge with Rome is accept the Pope and all the rest of the trimmings. Now there are Anglicans who are put out with the liberal branch, especially the ECUSA with its gay and women bishops, but those parishes are not generally going back to Rome, they're heading for Africa. Though I do know that some individual Episcopalian priests have gone RC - and if married, they've been allowed to (a) be priests AND (b) stay married, which would cheese me off something fierce if I were an RC priest grappling with the problem.The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-83861104845112600642008-07-23T00:29:00.000-07:002008-07-23T00:29:00.000-07:00Well again, it may not be officially sanctioned, b...Well again, it may not be officially sanctioned, but it's evidently more permissible than taking it to the back pew to show your heathen buddy. But the two churches are negotiating something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-16711088302924087932008-07-22T23:49:00.000-07:002008-07-22T23:49:00.000-07:00I haven't taken communion for over two decades-now...I haven't taken communion for over two decades-now atheist-but I remember confession being on Fridays or Saturday mornings. Meh.trog69https://www.blogger.com/profile/00448911131570383708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-9593259528815534792008-07-22T23:03:00.000-07:002008-07-22T23:03:00.000-07:00Thanks for the information, Unapologetic. The mutu...Thanks for the information, Unapologetic. The mutual participation in communion is especially surprising to me, since Rome does not recognize the validity of Anglican holy orders.<BR/><BR/>I'm aware that some of the Episcopalian congregations in the U.S. are breaking with the Anglican church over ordination of gay priests and bishops, so I imagine some of those people will cross over to Roman Catholicism, where the priesthood is still jealously restricted to men only, and none of those had better be overtly gay.Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-42704561793679123732008-07-22T21:58:00.000-07:002008-07-22T21:58:00.000-07:00Zeno, there's Roman Catholics and there's Anglican...Zeno, there's Roman Catholics and there's Anglican Catholics. Anglicans I've known have called themselves Catholic, just of a different branch than the better-known ones.<BR/><BR/>All that said, they're actually close enough that their communions are starting to merge again. I'd have to ask my theology hookup what the status is, but the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are much closer to full communion than with Protestant denominations. I even know people on both sides who receive the other's sacrament, and that with knowledge of the priest involved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-82679193215514754232008-07-22T13:41:00.000-07:002008-07-22T13:41:00.000-07:00Let's be fair here, Llewelly. I do not choose the ...Let's be fair here, Llewelly. I do not choose the code words required to post a comment in Blogger. Blogger is owned by Google. As we all know, Google tithes to the Church of Satan, so I assume they pick the demon names used in Blogger's comment feature.<BR/><BR/>May gleeu have mercy on you!Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-29924848916653889342008-07-22T13:33:00.000-07:002008-07-22T13:33:00.000-07:00Similarly, I'm not Mormon.Doesn't this character r...<I><BR/>Similarly, I'm not Mormon.<BR/></I><BR/>Doesn't this character realize that he's defaming the sacrament of Jesus Christ each time he takes it, as he's not Mormon, and the Mormon church is the sole true church on this Earth? Further, if he dies a non-Mormon, he'll spend the rest of eternity being pestered by Mormon missionaries? (That goes for you too, Zeno. I know you are not Mormon because I had to type 'gleeu' to post this comment. 'gleeu' is obviously the name of a demon lord which you as an atheist must worship.)llewellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001213921499191213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-76710072482444442972008-07-22T12:34:00.000-07:002008-07-22T12:34:00.000-07:00I don't doubt, Unapologetic, that Anglicans consid...I don't doubt, Unapologetic, that Anglicans consider themselves to be in the true line of descent of the original universal (catholic) church, but do you really think Anglicans would describe themselves as "Catholic" without hastening to add qualifiers? That is, not <I>Roman</I> Catholic.<BR/><BR/>Rome has rather effectively pre-empted the label "Catholic" for itself. Other sects may cite "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" in their liturgies, but I never hear them describe themselves as simply "Catholic". Have you heard Anglicans actually do this? Those most inclined to do so probably call themselves "Anglo-Catholics" instead.Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-82991831841672175542008-07-22T10:50:00.000-07:002008-07-22T10:50:00.000-07:00Um. Anglicans are Catholic. The Anglican communi...Um. Anglicans <I>are</I> Catholic. The Anglican communion regards itself, like the Roman Catholic communion and the Orthodox communion, it is a full and distinct branch of the "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church". It's a completely different theological schism than led to the Protestant denominations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-21228042207206355852008-07-22T09:21:00.000-07:002008-07-22T09:21:00.000-07:00If those wafers burst out of the Lucite, I'll go t...If those wafers burst out of the Lucite, <I>I'll</I> go to Mass, and I'm not even culturally Catholic. (My family are Anglicans, Presbyterians, and United Church of Canada; I was born an atheist and stayed one.)Interrobanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073177798747299275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-18465395393729064942008-07-22T07:49:00.000-07:002008-07-22T07:49:00.000-07:00I grew up going to Methodist church, and our commu...I grew up going to Methodist church, and our communion used grape juice and stale bread cubes, almost like croutons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com